Entries from December 2008

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008

Santa, Rudolf, Frosty and the Pollution of the American Mind

I have a friend, a long-time environmentalist, who denies there are any problems in the environment. He says the problems are in humans, not the environment. It is an excellent point, and it leads me to realize we Americans are suffering from the effects of two pollutions—the pollution of the American [...]

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008

Do We Have To Choose Between Hope And Reality?

To many people Obama represents hope for a better world. For others, the hope for a better world represented by Obama is a deception that masks a reluctance to face reality.
Let’s forget about Obama for a moment and look instead at the deeper contrast between the promise of hope and the disappointments of reality. Interestingly, [...]